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Anthropic report: Is Russia using AI for disinformation in the Central African Republic and elsewhere?

A new report says the AI model Claude was used in pro-Russian campaigns in the Central African Republic. Similar allegations have been made about propaganda in Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya…

  • Russian agents used AI Claude for disinformation campaigns in Central African Republic.
  • Claude monitored opposition politicians and created propaganda.
  • Similar tactics observed in conflicts involving Wagner Group across multiple countries.

·dw.com

Plumb: I built my friend a tutor for her own codebase, because "the AI writes the code now"

This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Weekend Challenge: Build for a Friend What I Built A friend of mine, a software engineer, asked me a question I couldn't shake: why should she keep learning…

  • Plumb is a tutor for specific codebases, not a code generator.
  • Users interact with Plumb via chat interface within their repository.
  • Plumb saves user knowledge, decisions, and skipped topics in .tutor/ folder.

·dev.to

DM Polisher — Open-weight AI cold-DM writer for a friend

This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Weekend Challenge: Build for a Friend What I Built DM Polisher — a cold-outreach message polisher built for a friend who kept sending the same templated…

  • DM Polisher polishes cold-outreach messages for internship applications
  • Tool generates LinkedIn DMs and cold emails in three concise sentences
  • Built with open-weight Llama 3.1 8B model and React 19 framework

·dev.to

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